The Morbid Age : Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939

The Morbid Age : Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939Author: Overy, Richard History Published on 27 May 2010 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 544 pages 198 x 130 x 21 370g Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G.

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